Sly Bald Guys Forum
Discussions About Being Bald => General Discussion => Topic started by: nuts on December 24, 2015, 02:46:53 PM
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I have often wondered how members chose their SBG name. Same are fairly obvious but others are quite intriguing.
My name 'nuts' is because my surname is Allnutt (not a common name!!) and at school I was called nuts or variations on that (some not so flattering). When I shaved my head it seemed entirely appropriate to use nuts reflecting my smooth dome. Also initially a few people thought I was mad.
Roger
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Owned, trained, and showed Irish Setters for 30 years.
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When l was in the service many many years ago , when not wearing my glasses . I was know not to have the sharpest vision , so my nickname Magoo was born .
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Pretty self-explanatory.
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I wore a buzz cut for several years before going sly. A former coworker thought I looked like an excommunicated Buddhist monk so he started calling me hingatao. I kept it when I went sly.
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Excellent topic, Nuts! Mine was given by my coworkers.
A year or so before I went smooth, I changed companies and was given an office with no windows. Since I am very aware of and annoyed by the pulse given off by Fluorescent tube lights (they really can hurt my eyes) and could not use natural light from a window, I brought in a table lamp for my desk. The office still was so dark, it began to be known as The Cave, and I as The One Who Dwells In The Cave. Hence, my name.
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I was originally 'SimplyRed', because of a bunch of BMW forums I was already a member of. 'SimplyRed' was actually my car's name. Eventually it made more sense to be SlyRed on SBG.
Now the car, by way of its license plate is also SlyRed. I am neither redheaded, nor red bearded.
Darrell
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I used to work in an office and three of us shared the same first name. The Canadian in the group would call me Mr Zed (last name starts with Z).
It stuck. I use this name in a number of places.
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Rodey was a nickname of mine at school and it just kind of stuck. In fact when i was at uni it wasnt untill i graduated that people realised my name was actually Ash
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I was Mike_ and I would have preferred to just be Mike, as I couldn't choose that I am now Sly Mike.
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I ride motorcycles. My current primary helmet is a custom one with two devils airbrushed on it. It was sitting on my desk when I registered.
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I can remember as a kid my uncle was bald and we always called him chrome dome. Thought it was funny and now being bald and slick I fought it was fitting! 'SlickChromeDome' ha
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quiet - cos I am a really quiet introverted bloke
dan - cos my name is daniel but I answer to dan a lot more now than I used to
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I love working up a good sweat. Even after the hardest day at work, when I get home the first thing I want to do is pump a little iron to help me wind down for the evening. I am all for physical fitness. 4fit.
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It is neat to read how we all came up with our names. My is pretty self explanatory ;)
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Great thread, Nuts! I chose my actual name because I felt it would be more personal when SBG was getting started.
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Hi guys. Some really neat responses and some are very inventive. Look forward to reading more 'name' stories.
Roger
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PoHawk. I am part Polish and use to wear and sometimes go back and forth between bald and a mohawk. Therefore the two "Pohawk"
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Since my name is Mike, I was going to be Slymike", but decided to spell it Slymyke, thinking that the Y would make Mike a little more Sly.
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Nice new photo, Pohawk!
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A little late to this thread, but I thought I'd share anyways...
I'm a Literature teacher and we were reading a story in class that talked about Rorschach Ink Blot tests. One student kept pronouncing it RorSHACK, instead of RorSHOCK, and when I finally shaved my head after my Alopecia got so bad, he commented on how my head looked like one of those RorSHACK tests from the story.
Since then, I've been Professor Rorschack!
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I like your sense of humor, Professor.
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Ok, so socknoggle. Years ago my now ex-wife and I ran a day care and pre-school out of our home. My name is Todd Sargent, so some kids called me Mr. Todd, some Mr. Sargent. However, there was one little boy that kept calling me Mr. Socknoggle. I asked him once why he called me that and he said, "That's your name". Well, everyone, staff and kids, though that was great!. From then on everyone, including my wife, referred to me as Mr. Socknoggle. I never have figured out how he got Socknoggle out of Sargent. It's so unique that I often use that as a user name for various sites.
On a side note, I often thought that name sounded like a character from a childrens' TV show. "I don't know Jimmy. Let's go ask Mr. Socknoggle". :)
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Great story. Looking forward to hearing from others. Intrigued when i read that slybaldguy was chosen recently after all these years and no one else had thought to use the obvious name
Roger
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It is over 6 months since I started this topic and there were some very inventive stories. Perhaps some of the newer members coujld add their story.
Nuts
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I wanted to post a reply to a post so I signed up, couldn't think of a good name that wasn't already taken so I went with a work related one. Cobranet is an Ethernet based audio transport......used to send audio processing through a switch network to allow audio processors to talk at great distances apart. Yeah, too much information! ;) I program audio processors at work and I figured the name was probably not taken...I was right.
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Well, I am a tech freak and years ago a distro of Ubuntu Linux was called Precise Pangolin. I developed and supported the community for Precise Pangolin for a few years, and later on I gained a interest in pangolins. They're very intriguing creatures, tough as nails, and very resilient. They are the most trafficked animal in the world. I found I relate to them in the way that very little phases me in life, I kind of just let the arrows bounce off so to speak.
So one day I needed to make a username and I chose ThePangolin. Its stuck and I use it in a lot of games, forums, and various other username requiring instances.